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COVID-19: Voicepoint remains active

Covid-19 - Thanks to all healthcare workers for their efforts The COVID-19 pandemic is keeping us all on tenterhooks right now. With the restrictions in place, we have moved very quickly to take internal measures to fully support the health sector in these difficult times. Our top priority is to protect our employees and maintain our operations to help the national effort taking place. Our teams work mainly from home and remain active for you! Read more

Voicepoint appointed Philips service centre

In the past, Voicepoint allowed the replacement of faulty dictation equipment and accessories from Philips to be handled externally. In many instances, this meant additional expenses for our customers. Voicepoint is now simplifying this process and has started to provide a hardware service for Philips products internally. Read more

Financial difficulties for Swiss hospitals

PwC - PricewaterhouseCoopers Over a quarter of acute hospitals in Switzerland operate at a loss. Hospitals such as psychiatric institutions need to improve their results. Clinics will continue to vanish completely. This is proved by new data provided by PwC. The trend can be reversed by adopting solutions to increase efficiency such as speech recognition and dictation workflow systems in medical documentation. Read more

Voicepoint celebrates its 10th anniversary

Voicepoint 10th anniversary In 2006, our company founders, Reto Heusser and Jonas Blum, started up their own business from a modest office in Seegräben in the Zurich Oberland region. It was established with the idea of creating reports of all kinds more quickly and conveniently to assist employees in document-intensive industries such as healthcare and law. In the meantime, Voicepoint has built up a considerable name for itself and is now Switzerland’s leading supplier of digital dictation systems, speech recognition software and dictation management solutions. Read more

Voicepoint implements dictation management solution in Ticino-based hospitals

Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale Ticino With 4 regional hospitals and 2 specialist clinics, the hospital group of Ticino (EOC) is the canton’s largest healthcare provider. Over the last few years, EOC has been replacing analogue dictation equipment with digital systems. Following a tender procedure, dictation management software was evaluated to standardise the dictation workflow and manage it from a central location. Upon completion of the procedure, Voicepoint was awarded the project and by introducing Winscribe, dictation can be managed comprehensively at all sites operated by the hospital group. Read more